Award-winning novelist Tina Makereti has written her first nonfiction book. A collection of essays, This Compulsion In Us brings Tina's perspective as wahine Māori - that of a teacher, daughter, traveller, and parent. and confronts experiences with alcoholism and breast cancer. In her writing Tina also likes to explore unknowability and the uncanny.
Tina Makereti is the author of three acclaimed novels: Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings, The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, and Ockham-shortlisted The Mires.
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